For Halloween I made the most amazing pumpkin bars. I plan on making them for our Saturday Thanksgiving feast, they are that good! I am not bragging, I found the recipe on allrecipes.com. How good were they? They were so good I forgot to take a picture. Do you really think that my pumpkin bars would have that little amount of walnuts on top? No!
*photo also by allrecipes
Paul's Pumpkin Bars (Paul is my new BFF)
4 eggs
1 2/3 cups white sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree (me - 2 cups fresh cooked)
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a medium bowl, mix the eggs, sugar, oil, and pumpkin with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Stir into the pumpkin mixture until thoroughly combined.
Spread the batter evenly into an ungreased 10x15 inch jellyroll pan. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes in preheated oven. Cool before frosting.
To make the frosting, cream together the cream cheese and butter. Stir in vanilla. Add confectioners' sugar a little at a time, beating until mixture is smooth. Spread evenly on top of the cooled bars. Cut into squares.
4 eggs
1 2/3 cups white sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree (me - 2 cups fresh cooked)
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a medium bowl, mix the eggs, sugar, oil, and pumpkin with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Stir into the pumpkin mixture until thoroughly combined.
Spread the batter evenly into an ungreased 10x15 inch jellyroll pan. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes in preheated oven. Cool before frosting.
To make the frosting, cream together the cream cheese and butter. Stir in vanilla. Add confectioners' sugar a little at a time, beating until mixture is smooth. Spread evenly on top of the cooled bars. Cut into squares.
That is straight from one of my favorite websites, allrecipes! I love allrecipes because it has temperatures in Celsius as well as Farenheit. I also love allrecipes because people can make comments and add their own ideas of what works and what does not. I only roll my eyes to this fabulous system when some lovely commenters add things like:
"this turned out horrible! I did not have baking soda, so I doubled the powder I had and I did not have bread flour so I doubled the whole wheat flour, oh ya, I only had 1 egg and it called for 4, so I just added extra milk, what a dumb recipe, thanks a lot, Gary!"
Or whoever the recipe contributor's name might be. If you do not make a recipe how they say to and it turns out like crap I do not think you have the right to comment. It is that simple. I am not kidding with the crazy changes people think are ok to try and comment about like it is the contributors fault! The funny thing about Paul's bars that were submitted by Deb Martin (thanks Deb) some commenters were saying they were too cakey? Cakey and delicious is all I have to add to that.
So, let me just add that to Paul's amazing recipe, the only thing I changed was canned pumpkin to fresh pumpkin. Seeing that in Switzerland if you can find a can of overpriced pumpkin it is rare, it just seemed easier for me to use fresh. Oh, and I added TONS of walnuts to half of the pan. And I used an entire 8 oz. cream cheese container with the obvious larger increments of other ingredients to make the cream cheese frosting marvelous. And that is it, I promise. So, instead of pumpkin pie tomorrow or maybe in addition to, why not try my favorite pumpkin bars.
Happy Thanksgiving America!
En Guete! - Jenna
